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At the LSCP, we do approximately 500 business visits per year to make sure we understand the challenges and opportunities they are facing. The number one challenge we continue to hear, is the difficulty finding and retaining talent.

As you know, the Lake Superior Community Partnership works in economic development. But what folks often don’t realize is that tourism is an important component of economic development and contributes to the success of our region.

As you know, websites can often times be the cornerstone of a company or organization’s marketing efforts. It is no different at the Lake Superior Community Partnership where our website is the most comprehensive tool we have to assist our wide variety of users.

The LSCP Marketing Team has been planning our second largest fundraiser of the year. We know there are many golf outings over the course of the summer and are thankful our partners and the community continue to support ours. Our goal this year is to raise $10,000, which will go directly toward the economic development services that we provide Marquette County.

With the hustle and bustle of the Lake Superior Community Partnership (LSCP) graduation season, I’d like to take some time to dedicate today’s column to all of the people graduating from programs under the LSCP umbrella in April and May.

What a week! The Marquette County Ambassadors completed their spring trip to Lansing which included two full days of meetings with the Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Department Heads and elected officials. The group of 25 community leaders from Marquette, Baraga and Dickinson counties were able to share important issues to our region, offer potential solutions and say thank you for the various supports they have provided.

Well, it’s that time of year again for us to release our 2018 year-end results! We did so at our Annual Meeting on Northern Michigan University’s campus March 12. This was an opportunity for our stakeholders to come together to hear what we have been up to over the past year, as well as celebrate businesses who have added new jobs. It is these investments from businesses that drive the local economy.

One of the LSCP Brand Pillars’ states, “We provide a wide variety of affordable and effective development services – for businesses and municipalities”. This pillar describes where our efforts are focused. In a nutshell, investments from our Investors allow the LSCP to provide business development services that help all sectors and stages of companies.